The Sticks Awards are given to the best strips of all times, chosen by the polls here in the Playground. Previously, each poll had a group of 10 comics, chronologically chosen. But due to a new setting of the board software that limited poll options up to 5 only, we had to switch to this new format. Two polls of 5 comics each. Whichever comic gets more votes in both polls qualifies to the finals.

Also, the links cannot be provided in the poll options anymore, since there is also a 25-chars limit on them. So, I'm putting them here (see below). This week's comics will feature strips from #171 to 175 and from #176 to 180.